Migrating From Microsoft Office to Openoffice.org or Staroffice 9

Executive Summary

This brief whitepaper is designed to assist IT professionals and system integrators who want to move an organization from Microsoft Office 97/2000/XP/2003 to OpenOffice.org (OOo) or StarOffice (SO). The whitepaper provides a general framework for a migration to OOo/SO, including a discussion of the key technical aspects of migration planning and file conversion. The basic information that is needed to plan for contingencies during the critical pre-conversion and post-conversion stages of the migration is also provided.